Staff Software Engineer, Payment Systems
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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $154,662–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $196k for comparable roles.
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Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology
Coinbase currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $215,177–$253,150 across 50 roles with salary data.
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Software Engineer, CDP - Payment Acceptance will join the Developer group to build the stablecoin payment rail powering merchant checkout, subscriptions, and onchain settlement for businesses. The role involves owning end-to-end feature delivery across Go backend services and React/Next.js frontends, including gRPC orchestration, protobuf definitions, and TypeScript client integrations. You will develop buyer checkout components like payment links and wallet connection flows using wagmi and viem, while implementing durable, fault-tolerant workflows for refunds and reconciliation using Temporal and PostgreSQL. Key technical requirements include experience with Go concurrency, REST/gRPC APIs, and structured observability via Datadog or OpenTelemetry. The position focuses on the technical challenge of creating a performant stablecoin payment rail across multiple EVM chains to facilitate global commerce through reliable, automated settlement processes and high-performance merchant-facing checkout experiences.
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